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Adversity
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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Boredom
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
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Change
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Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same...You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.
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Change alone is unchanging.
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Nothing endures but change.
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Character
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny
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A man's character is his guardian divinity.
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Danger
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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Death
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Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
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Education
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
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Expectation
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If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
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Facts
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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
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God
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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
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Immortality
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Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
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Prejudice
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Bigotry is the sacred disease.
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Sleep
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Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
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Wisdom
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Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
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